Mr. Speaker, I know that sometimes a political answer is the only appropriate one. However, this is such a straightforward question.
I would ask my question for the third time. I am not trying to be cute or tricky. Would it not be more appropriate to have the committee review the names that are to be presented at the nomination stage? Then the names go to the PMO and the PMO would pluck from that group of names to make the process useful.
If there has never been in history a single person turned down for an order in council appointment, surely it is a sham. Should it not be nomination, review; appointment, no need to review.